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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing should be about her and her qualifications for the highest Court in the country. And yet, the Republican party is pushing talking points geared toward feeding the base ahead of upcoming midterm elections.
Early Tuesday afternoon, the official GOP account tweeted a GIF with an image of Jackson and her initials KBJ being crossed out and replaced by the letters CRT for critical race theory. As Nneka D. Dennie noted on Twitter, the GOP keeps moving the needle with what it considers critical race theory aka CRT. Looking to score cheap points, the GOP equated a Black woman with liberal leanings as being the boogeyman Republicans claim is destroying America.
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Continuing its ongoing disinformation campaign around CRT, tying a Black woman federal judge to the GOP’s distortion of the legal theory is made even more evident in a rapid response document, “Important Questions for KBJ.”
That document cites another claiming critical race theory is “heading to the Supreme Court” by Biden nominating Jackson. GOP misinformation is less about Jackson and more about sowing discord ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.
Points in the GOP rapid response also attempt to paint the late professor Derrick Bell, an influential legal scholar, as a questionable figure to admire. At issue is a passing reference to Bell’s book, “Faces at the Bottom of the Well,” during a speech given at the University of Michigan Law School’s MLK Day Lecture on Black Women Leaders In the Civil Rights Movement Era and beyond.
Jackson referenced the book because of the striking image of the cover showing a person peering through bars in a jail cell and drew a connection to the condition and experience of Black women. Reasonable people can disagree with the book, but it is ridiculous to pretend that referencing it is controversial or disqualifying.
Again it’s not actually about Jackson but keeping the Republican base primed and ready to pounce on fabricated claims as an election strategy. A confirmation process that is televised and live-streamed provides a perfect place to distribute talking points that have been repeatedly refuted.
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